Nish Kumar
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Describing the plot of Roma.
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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Craft & work
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Time & hindsight
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When my dog died a couple of years ago. We were in Greece on vacation and a friend was watching her at home, and she was bitten by a snake. We rushed home, but we were too late by a few hours.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗
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That I still don’t understand life. When I was young, I thought at some point I would find somebody who does. I am 45, and there is a good chance that I’ll never meet somebody like that.
On a personal level, the friend who is a single mum raising two kids by herself during this Covid era. She is a real hero. If a historical personality, I choose Mikhail Gorbachev, who probably saved the world from world war three.
When I was 16, at the beginning of the summer vacation, I worked in a factory that made industrial valves and I was a much worse industrial valve producer than historian.
Now. I’ve learned to adjust my expectations to reality better than when I was 20 or 10.
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